Tuesday, June 23, 2009

Shark Attack Cupcakes!

Recently my 4 year old gave up sucking his thumb. To celebrate, I promised him a party complete with decorated cupcakes. The cupcake design of his choice? Sharks. I found the directions for how to make these cupcakes in the book Hello Cupcake.

I decorated shark, life preservers, and octopus cupcakes. Mine didn't turn out quite as cute as the ones in the book, but I think my son will love them anyway (he's not picky about his sweets).

My husband found the octopuses at the grocery store and I thought they were perfect to go with the sharks. I stuck them on cupcakes, added some eyes, and voila'! Very easy!

Of course, not all the cupcakes survived the decorating process. There were a few casualties.

The story behind the "Stopped Sucking My Thumb Party": Helping My Son Stop Sucking His Thumb.

For more cupcake fun, check out: Hello, Cupcake!: Irresistibly Playful Creations Anyone Can Make
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13 comments:

  1. Those are cute! What did you use for the shark body?

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  2. Very cute!! I commend you for having the patience for those sharks.

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  3. Those are so adorable! They make make me want to go off my diet-lol.

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  4. The sharks are made out of twinkies! I have to say it was the first time in my life I have ever bought Twinkies!

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  5. Awesome!! what a great pastry chef you are!! :)
    What are twinkies?

    And cuddos on helping your son oversoming the thumb sucking!

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  6. Twinkies are a super fattening high calorie pre-packaged store bought snack cake. Not healthy at all. They do however make good shark bodies, though. : )

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  7. You did a great job on those! I have that book and it isn't as easy as it looks:)

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  10. Those came out really cute!! I bet your son was psyched!!!


    I've seen that book. I took a look at it once when I was in Borders and I chuckled and quickly put it back on the shelf. In no way do I have that kind of creativity...or patience!

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  11. How clever are you! What a great looking tray of cakes - he must have been impressed :)

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  12. I think they turned out fantastic, pish posh the ones in the book.

    lol, I love the picture of the ones that didnt make it through.

    visiting from SITS

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  13. thanks : )

    I start to laugh every time I see that last photo of Twinky shark casualties.

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